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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan - 2013
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753947
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
This paper analyzes the timing, pace and efficiency of the on- going job reallocation that results from product and … policies can restore economic efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139984
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Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools : Evidence from New York City
Dobbie, Will - 2011
Charter schools were developed, in part, to serve as an R&D engine for traditional public schools, resulting in a wide variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter schools and correlate these data with credible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117889
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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121046
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Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency : A Dynamic Analysis
Coate, Stephen - 2011
This paper revisits the classic argument that a system of local governments financing public service provision via property taxes will produce an efficient allocation of both housing and services if communities can implement zoning ordinances. The novel feature of the analysis is a dynamic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123687
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Inefficient Investment Waves
He, Zhiguo - 2012
We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private investment incentives from a social point of view....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103789
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Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work : Collaboration and Scientific Reward
Bikard, Michaël - 2014
efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that arises after the completion of collaborative work. In this paper, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064160
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The Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation
Korinek, Anton - 2013
Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the … levels of welfare for the two parties. A regulator has to trade off efficiency in the financial sector, which is aided by … deregulation, against efficiency in the real economy, which is aided by tighter regulation and a more stable supply of credit. We …
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